Charles Lindbergh, as modest as a cadet flyer before his solo flight, began today the task of buying a coat upon which to wear the cross of the Legion of Honor. He arrived in Paris with none other ...

In Long Beach, California's historic and protected Breakers Hotel is slated to return in November in a new deal with the ...

The Vought V-173, or "Flying Pancake," defied traditional aircraft design with its flat, flying-wing shape. Invented in the ...

Applying incentive prizes, demonstrating sustainable flight and recognizing and accelerating breakthroughs are methods to accomplish these goals." Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo ...

IN LYME CENTER. HIS FATHER WAS THE BAPTIST CHURCH MINISTER. ANOTHER FACT, COMMANDER REED WAS NOT THE ONLY MAN WHO WAS FIRST ...

British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown make the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Clifden in County Galway. Aged 25, Charles Lindbergh makes the first ...

In his novel “The Plot Against America,” Philip Roth depicts the rise to the presidency in the late 1930s of Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who made the first transatlantic solo ...

Nicholson pointed out that Lindbergh turned into a global idol overnight after he made the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927. The publicity-shy Lindbergh became a constant and ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. On April 3, 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to the electric chair ...